Good food has always been good food. Fruits, vegetables, healthy fats, and lean protein, these approaches to healthy eating will never change. But diet fads will come and go. After all they are "diets" and that always implies short-term changes. We need to focus on the long haul, an entire life. If you practice moderation and portion sensibility you can enjoy all ranges of food, during your lifetime, and still be healthy.
Don't demonize the food. Demonize your abuse of food.
Diets are short term experiments. Of course short-term changes only bring us short-term results. There's the error with dieting. People get a quick positive result that has a very high failure rate in the long-term.
Success is related to confidence. If you are a Yo-Yo Dieter, losing weight, gaining weight, losing weight, you will never get anywhere with your health. And if you fail and backslide each time you succeed then you'll always have less faith with there being any real hope for the future. Gain confidence by creating a new, healthy lifestyle of food and forget the diets.
Of course, it is important to understand how our individual chemistry responds to various nutritional stimuli. That is why gastronomy exist. Gastronomy is the practice or art of choosing, cooking, and eating good food; it is also the study of food and culture.
We must learn to approach food with an adventurous spirit and open mind. There are so many things for you to learn about yourself through eating. Just as you can travel the world, so must you travel the world of food.
I challenge you to go on a gastronomical journey. It won't be easy, always. There will be a few sour faces and yuck moments. But beyond the fear of unusual taste there lies an open field of opportunity:
Fruits and vegetables you have never heard of but will one day love.
Herbs and spices you learn to cook with.
Flavors undiscovered in your own kitchen and home.
As for losing the weight. Here is your formula to success.
1 pound of fat = 3500 calories
Cut 500 calories of food a day for a week to lose 1 pound.
Or add activity upwards of burning 250 calories a day and only cut 250 calories of your food.
Pretty simple.
1 pound a week for 52 weeks is 52 pounds. Clearly, we can't continue to lose weight. But you are setting yourself up not to gain. That is the key.
We always say gaining weight is easier than losing weight. That isn't true. What is true is that we don't realize or commit to lose weight until we've already gained so much. Of course, by then the task is much harder in that we must be patient and persistent longer.
Enough talk. I'm hungry :)
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